RcppDate wraps the featureful date library written by Howard Hinnant for use with R. This header-only modern C++ library has been in pretty wide-spread use for a while now, and adds to C++11/C++14/C++17 what will is (with minor modifications) the ‘date’ library in C++20. The RcppDate adds no extra R or C++ code and can therefore be a zero-cost dependency for any other project; yet a number of other projects decided to re-vendor it resulting in less-efficient duplication. Oh well. C’est la via.
This release sync wuth the (already mostly included) upstream release
3.0.3, and also addresses a new fresh (and mildly esoteric) nag from
clang++-20. One upstream PR
already addressed this in the files tickled by some CRAN packages, I followed this up
with another
upstream PR addressing this in a few more occurrences.
Changes in version 0.0.5 (2025-03-06)
Updated to upstream version 3.0.3
Updated 'whitespace in literal' issue upsetting clang++-20; this is also fixed upstream via two PRs
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the most recent release. More information is available at the repository or the package page.
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